Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • King
  • Leader
  • Values

• I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Done
  • Cute
  • Naked

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Brain
  • Imagination
  • Perception

• You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Money
  • Know
  • Fame

• Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Law

• I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Vision
  • Monster
  • Vampire

• The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual
  • Personality

• There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.

  

  Caroline Gordon
  • Great
  • Age
  • Purpose

• We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Focus

• Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime

  

  Ian Brennan
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Ideas

• Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Artist

• I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if Jobs got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • God
  • Trouble

• She was convinced that men didn’t give a damn about other people’s feelings and that they got away with whatever they wanted. Women couldn’t be trusted either. They were too weak to stand up for themselves, and they’d sell their bodies to get men to take care of them. If you were in trouble, they wouldn’t lift a finger to help you. This worldview manifested itself in the way Marilyn approached her colleagues at work: She was suspicious of the motives of anyone who was kind to her and called them on the slightest deviation from the nursing regulations. As for herself: She was a bad seed, a fundamentally toxic person who made bad things happen to those around her.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Trouble
  • Convinced
  • Take Care

• I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Trouble
  • Tribalism